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Talk Steven Wallace, Indiana University, USA Title: Tsunami Abstract: With the exception of computers purpose-built for vector processing or other specific types of calculations (e.g. GRAvity PipE) today's supercomputer, in terms of raw scalar performance, is as common as the researcher's desktop. Moore's law and mass production have increased the 70's era room-filling supercomputer performance by greater than two orders of magnitude and shrunk its size and price to that of the common desktop workstation. At the same time high-speed access to peripherals and data has extended from the devices a few feet from the CPU to remote computers and resources thousands of miles away thanks to a fiber optics-based revolution in long distance telecommunications technologies. Distance equates to delay and general purpose network protocols may not provide the needed performance over high-speed, high-latency communications channels. Further complicating high-speed, long-distance data communications is the general reliance on TCP as the data transport protocol. In this paper we relate a real-world challenge to demonstrate the capability to move terabytes of data using standard desktop hardware over a great distance at high-speed.
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